[Spoilers] Luff_Hi of Japan

[sunrise089]

I am suspending any posting of war related diplo and future war plans for the duration of The Yaz Episode. Reports of what actually happen will continue.

Worried that the allies have broken your diplo codes?

[Ruff_Hi]

Hey matey, have you got a copy of the chat where Yaz finally admitted that he thought you had tipped Darrell off?

see post 112.

[Ruff_Hi]

Worried that the allies have broken your diplo codes?

Just being careful.

Pursuant to post #119, here is what happened in the latest turn ...

1. Yaz attacked and killed my archer at 65% (his victory odds)
   
2. Yaz razed my 2nd city and I lost access to copper
   
3. Yaz moved his immortal to the mine East of Washington
   
4. Yaz moved his 3 axes to the forest 2 NE of Washington
   
5. You probably will not get more updates re Washington from me as my WB moves out of range
   
6. traded Archery to SquareLeg
   
7. SquareLet settled Headingly - I think that is a mis-nomer
   
8. ask about screenshot 0065 and 0066 after The Yaz Episode
   

All in all, I am very happy with this turn which is a funny statement given #1 and #2 above.

Update - Screenshot 0065 showing that I have horses and that I am chopping archers


Screenshot 0066 showing my second city (elephants) and a source of horses that I don't know about. You'll also see in this shot that I originally had a galley chasing the circum bonus while the workboat was waiting for a border pop. I decided that the galley was more important at home defending the faithful. That decision delayed my circum attempt by 3 to 4 turns ... I wonder if it will matter.

[Kyan]

Well, thanks for the turn update.

I'm kind of confused about why exactly you don't want to post those things here? You said to be careful, careful of what?

Has a lurker given something away?

[Ruff_Hi]

during discussion with other parties, the question of leaked information was raised ... could be lurker, could be players reading other threads.

[Ruff_Hi]

Another turn! Wow! Met Krill, completed Aesthetics. Still have 2 cities . Can see SLs border. Have 1 axe and 1 immortal 3 tiles away from capital (in the forest next to the lake if you want to go back and check a screenshot. Also see two Yaz workers roading towards me.

I am going to <snip snip snip>

However, since Yaz can see his own power ...

[Ruff_Hi]

chat with Krill ...

• Krill: save is yours?
  Just wondering if you are playing now, chance we get an extra turn in before hte weekend
  
• Ruff: playing now
  lost 2nd city
  
• Krill:
  please please kill Yaz
  ok, that's the BS done now
  please don;t die and give Yaz an entire island?
  it makes the game harder for me
  
• Ruff: no question of me dying
  

[Ruff_Hi]

and a silly chat between the players back on March 11th before The Yaz Episode.

• Darrell has joined
  
• Darrell: Must be PBEM2
  Andy has joined
  
• Dreylin: oh lordy
  I'm gonna get nagged!
  
• SquareLeg: Hello all - apologies for the delay!
  
• Krill: You all know you want to
  and Yaz is here as well
  Yaz has joined
  
• Darrell: thank goodness for windowed mode
  
• Yaz: hey everyone
  
• Krill: Awesome
  got the entire group
  
• SquareLeg: full house!
  
• Ruff: did it say Ruff joined
  it must have squealed on me
  
• SquareLeg: fancy cramming a couple of turns to make up for lost time?
  
• Krill: And FYI, blame Yaz for pointing this out
  
• Dreylin: (quietly nips off to fiddle with the turn)
  
• Yaz: Hey now
  
• Ruff: chat away - I will go back to work and read later
  
• Darrell: In the grand tradition of PBEM...shall we wager?
  World Cup coming up and no danger of this game ending before that.
  
• SquareLeg: interesting...
  you taking USA?
  
• Dreylin: but aren't half of us Brits
  
• Darrell: Is anyone from a nation that did NOT qualify?
  My my, and we are in the same group
  
• Dreylin: we can't all take England!
  
• Krill: Yaz, sorry dude, but you can;t take art in this
  
• Yaz: Canada
  
• Dreylin: Are the Aussies in?
  
• Krill: Aussies are in...
  
• Yaz: Oh wells we won hockey. Much better then kicking your balls around a field.
  
• Darrell: You know how Canadians love being mistaken for Americans, let's just pretend Yaz is one. Course now he only gets silver in hockey
  
• SquareLeg: yeah aussies made it
  
• Yaz: Guess I'll just have to use 'eh' more eh?
  
• Darrell: :D
  
• SquareLeg: Ice hockey is pretty big where I am in the UK. Any guesseS?
  
• Ruff: aussies qualified 2nd for world cup .. behind Sth Africa who get auto invite!
  
• Darrell: Hmm...Bath?
  that's pretty north I reckon
  
• SquareLeg: Bath is south and NO
  
• Darrell: ruff's turn
  
• Ruff: New England?
  
• Krill: Sheffield?
  
• SquareLeg: Uk...
  
• Darrell: Yaz, don't forget to be stupid about geography now, its one of our many charms
  
• Dreylin: /me bets Ruff's still at work and can't play
  
• SquareLeg: Good guess but no - Panthers..
  
• Darrell: panthers? that's the name of MY hockey team
  
• Ruff: cheated - looked at RB logo / icon
  
• Darrell: google says nottingham
  
• SquareLeg: correct - 1gp awarded
  
• Darrell: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=england+ice+hockey+panthers
  
• Krill: wow dude
  
• Dreylin: gp = Great Person, right?
  
• Krill: I'm only an hour away
  
• Dreylin:
  
• SquareLeg: ;/
  
• Krill: I'm thinking prank calling your home.
  
• Dreylin: Eeek!
  
• Darrell: STILLL Ruff's turn.
  
• Yaz: Translation - He's planning on setting up with some binocolars to watch you play your turn.
  
• Ruff: ok ... I guess NO WHERE as no one plays ice hocking in the UKL
  
• SquareLeg: Yeah - the pergatory panthers has a ring to it!
  i can't spell...
  
• Krill: I was wondering about that
  
• Darrell: The Florida Panthers play almost walking distance from my house.
  I'm obligated to go to the games. Or is that obliged?
  
• Dreylin: They play Ice Hockey in Florida!?
  
  
• Darrell: South Florida no less
  
• SquareLeg: still ruffs turn
  
• Krill: Anyone live near Ruff?
  
• SquareLeg: wouldn't catch me taking that long! ;-)
  
• Darrell: We should make him take Australia in our world cup betting action as punishment
  
• Krill: maybe they can go poke him?
  
• Dreylin: close-ish
  
• Ruff: are you getting these messages?
  
• Dreylin: couple of hours through NY
  
• Darrell: No Ruff, we aren't
  
• Ruff: phew - thought it was just me
  what was the question again?
  
• Dreylin: when you play turn?
  
• Yaz: When are you going to play your turn? :P
  
• Krill: are you going to piss me off?
  
• Ruff: its not with me at the moment so I am not going to
  
• Krill: All three mean the same thing.
  
• Dreylin: I uploaded it minutes ago!
  
• Yaz: Krill I think you have to declare war on Ruff for that.
  
• Ruff: ok - I see it
  
• Yaz: You can download the turn from the site, faster then waiting for email
  
• Ruff: I will play at 7:23 this evening ... 3:27 from now
  
• Darrell: faster to get it straight from pbemtracker.com I think
  I don't know if we can make the chat last that long
  
• Ruff: sure you can - did you know that the Penrith football team is called Panthers!
  
• Dreylin: also 12:30am for UKs
  
• Krill: Hmmm
  
• Darrell: let's continue this discussion over on Dreylin's PBEM1 thread.
  
• Krill: I'm thinking we train a carrier pidgin
  
• Dreylin: Yeah!
  
• SquareLeg: I may be sleeping...
  Is that still going? ;-p
  
• Ruff: that comp is officially over
  
• Krill: I'll definitely be sleeping...got a test tomorrow
  
• Ruff: I should post a note with the little dance smilies
  
• Yaz: some people need to learn to sleep now, play later :P
  
• Dreylin: Agreed, but if I pass you later I get a special spamming prize
  
• Ruff: yeah - ok
  
• Krill: I'd rather set myself up to earn 4 grand next week
  
• Ruff: the SSPoP1
  
• Dreylin: heh
  
• Ruff: "The Stupid Spamming Prize of Pbem1"
  
• Darrell: I bet Andy thought the first S was for Special
  
• Dreylin: Actually, at the current rate if my thread passed yours that prize should go to Darrell
  
• SquareLeg: Spammers anonymous
  
• Ruff: special as in the special olympics?
  
• Dreylin:
  
• Darrell: Be careful Yaz...as an American you can't joke about things like that anymore
  
• Krill: OK guys, what is the chance we six meet again sometime this weekend?
  
• Ruff: can we convert it to a pitboss with a 24 min timer?
  
• Dreylin: I think I'm free Saturday, but have to run to the airport sometime Sunday to pick up a guest
  
• Darrell: weekends are tough for me, and this weekend I'll be at a GTR race watching rich people and their ferraris
  THere should be a way to toggle between PB and PBEM
  
• Krill: should, or is?
  
• Darrell: should be
  for moments like this
  sure, Ruff would get skipped a bunch, but he already won one pbem.
  Oh wait...he lost that one didn't he?
  
• Yaz: bah ruff just wan'ts to double move on me!
  
• Krill: burn
  
• Yaz: I'm on to you ruff
  
• SquareLeg: you two still throwing rocks at each other?
  
• Krill: I think they run out of those last year
  
• Yaz: For now, until I finish my lion flinging catapult
  
• Krill: now they are on dirt clods
  
• Darrell: I thought Cows were the way to go?
  
• SquareLeg: or pigs
  
• Ruff: cheeze!
  
• Yaz: hmm might be easier for the guys to handle
  
• SquareLeg: is anyone going to post this?
  
• Yaz: Let Ruff have fun trying to color it
  
• Krill: he needs something to do when at work.
  Andy has left
  
• Darrell: be sure to put it in dreylin's pbem1 thread
  
• Ruff: i thought about posting thus but the value to lurkers is actually negative
  Square has left
  
• Krill: Not really
  
• Darrell: they'll flee in droves
  
• Ruff: (and I have an excel macro that does all the color coding - I just click a button)
  
• Krill: it shows them what a slacker you are Ruff, you aren't to be trusted!
  
• Yaz: That's what I've been saying! Don't trust Ruff!
  
• Krill: They don;t flee us, just Ruffs' prescence. Kinda like hte pied piper
  
• Ruff: hey - I don't have to stay here for this type of treatment
  I can go anywhere for treatment this bad!!!
  and oldie but a goodie
  
• Krill: I'll try to up it, make it special enough for you Ruff
  Andy has joined
  
• Krill: might start adding snide comments in the tracker.
  ooh, Lost had a good episode.
  
• Dreylin: Sundown, or the next one?
  (which I haven't seen yet)
  
• Krill: Dr Linus
  
• Dreylin: Aha
  
• Krill: I think it is a good episode, fits the last season well
  You'll enjoy it
  
• Dreylin: excellent
  it's felt a bit disjointed in recent episodes
  
• Krill: Yup
  but when hasn't it?
  
• Dreylin: true
  but the last couple have dealt primarily with completely separate groups
  when usually there's some of everyone
  
• Krill: True, it has been different. I'm really hoping we see a Richard centric episode soon
  
• Dreylin: it's getting easier to lose track of where everyone is ... even though there are less and less of them!
  
• Krill: They all die in the end
  Well, I meant minor charactors
  Yaz has left
  
• Dreylin: oh sure
  
• Krill: but perhaps all ofh te major ones die as well
  
• Dreylin: but the line between major & minor is always in flux
  I just hope that Jack & Kate aren't the only ones to survive
  cos I really dislike both of them
  
• Darrell: a'right...I'm out of here...talk to you guys later
  
• Ruff: me too
  bye
  

[Ruff_Hi]

So - while we wait for the turns to start flying again, I've been looking at my Southern land and (assuming I survive the The Yaz Episode) here is what I think re dot map. Every city pretty much positions itself apart from the Grass Cow city (South East) and the No Food Plains Hill city (Western shore).

Any comments on the cities? Any suggestions on how to feed that Plains Hill city?

[Dantski]

Move 1NE and use a lighthouse to make the lake tile 3 food? Not a big help as you sacrifice a few 2 food tiles to get it.